Kill This Love by BLACKPINK Song Info
"Kill This Love" is a song recorded by BLACKPINK. It was released on April 4, 2019 through YG and Interscope, as the lead single for the group's second Korean-language EP of the same name. It was written by Teddy Park and Bekuh Boom and produced by them alongside R.Tee and 24. The single has been described as an electropop song, whose lyrics talk about the girls' decision to end a toxic relationship. A Japanese version of the song was released on October 16, 2019. An accompanying music video for the song was directed by Seo Hyun-seung and uploaded onto BLACKPINK's YouTube channel simultaneously with the single's release. Upon release, the music video broke the record for the most views within 24 hours, accumulating 56.7 million views and has, as of November 2020, accumulated more than 1.1 billion views on the platform. Commercially, the single reached the charts in 27 countries. It peaked at number two in South Korea and became the group's first top-50 hit in the United States and the United Kingdom, thus also becoming the highest-charting female K-pop song on the Billboard Hot 100 at the time. It has been certified silver by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ).
